Kirkwood Family History
Kirkwood Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of several places named as
being a wood belonging to the Church or situated by a church (see
Kirk). There are places so called in Ayrshire, Dumfries, and
Lanarkshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kirkwood
Name Distribution of Kirkwood Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kirkwood families
 97 - 191  33 - 96 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kirkwood families
|
436 - 870 146 - 435 |
1 - 145 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kirkwood census records
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Kirkwood Family Origin
Kirkwood Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kirkwood Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Kirkwood Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kirkwood census records
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Military Service by Kirkwood
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